Re: Font Capplet, Font Applet...

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

A document font seems useful, and there seems to be agreement about that.

However, we already have some font/a11y problems, since themes do not
currently affect fonts (except for "application font" via the unloved 
"Apply Font" button).

While we're changing this stuff I'd like to improve the situation 
instead of
just adding one more font setting that "large print" users will have to 
tweak, and removing
gconf keys that largeprint users will have written gconftool scripts to 
modify ;-).

I do agree that the Window Title font should remain in the capplet.

I like the idea of a font applet that allows making all the desktop 
fonts bigger/smaller
at will.  This would presumably be just right for many users (who want 
all fonts bigger or smaller),
and of course we should preserve the fine controls for users who want to 
tweak individual
font settings.  Perhaps there's a way we could tie this into the theme 
engines too, so that
a theme could (temporarily) modify all font settings in a relative 
way... this might even allow
us to do away with the evil 'apply font' button since switching themes 
could remove the (+2)
or whatever relative size modification we might use for this.

Just adding another font type and changing the backend just makes the 
a11y situation messier,
maybe we can make it much nicer...

- Bill